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October 24, 2007

Email Notifications for Blogger Comments

Here's a good tip for those who leave comments on an old post from a Blogger blog: now you can get email notifications if someone posts a new comment. Just check "Email follow-up comments to my Google account address".

Blogger also provides feeds for each post's comments, but not many people use feed readers and those who use one don't want to increase the number of subscriptions with "weird" feeds that are useful for a limited time.

That's not the same thing. This feature lets you track all the follow-up comments for a certain post. It would be nice to receive only the replies to your comment, but Blogger doesn't offer the option to reply to a comment.

Comments are one of the weakest points in Blogger and there are many things that could be improved (adding the comment box to the blog post, rich text editor, spam filter, stats).

But what about people that don't have blogger or a gmail account? Is there an add-in to keep those people in the loop? By the way, I didn't see a way that I can subscribe to this comment myself! Kinda funny....

This option should be for ALL email addresses, not just Google Accounts.Most of my friends, for example, don't use gmail, and generally they use either Hotmail (Windows Live) or Yahoo. That of course because those two companies might be the most popular in IM and Email internationally.

I strongly suggest that Google solves this. At least it should be an option for the blogger. That would really help a lot.

I need a feature that allows me to reply to my readers' comments on my blog AND send them a notification via email that I have done so! It's a pain trying to do both manually! I've been trying to find a way to do this but nothing has worked out. Any suggestions?

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